Jiang frames Brunetto's condemnation as resting on homosexuality alone, which makes the punishment appear disproportionate and forces the reader to search for a deeper logic.
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Violence against nature
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Jiang reasserts that Brunetto belongs to the circle of violence because homosexuality is being treated as a violation of God and nature.
Jiang proposes incest as the truly paradigmatic violence against God and nature and says its absence from the explicit text forces readers to imagine it as part of the same zone.
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"Okay. Okay. So this is a very important passage in the vine column. Okay. So let me explain what's going on. They are in..."
"All right. So this is showing the affection between Ser Brunetto and Dante. But this raises a really huge problem for us. Does Dante..."
"So, so this is Sir, Sir Brunetto, who is the teacher and father figure to Dante. And again, he is in the circle of..."
"Yeah. So again, it's a problem for us, right? Why is homosexuality so bad? Okay. All right. So let's figure this out. And again,..."
"Incest is pretty common among the elite, right? Because they want to maintain their bloodline. Because they want to maintain their purity. Do you..."
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